Pentamode metamaterial (PM) has enormous application potential in the design of lightweight bodies with superior vibration and noise-reduction performance. To offer systematic insights into the investigation of PMs, this paper studies the various eff...
The determination of an isolation-bearing scheme usually depends on experience, and needs numerous iterative calculations, especially when considering many factors such as total cost of the scheme, various design indicators, eccentricity of stiffness...
Object manipulation automation in logistic warehouses has recently been actively researched. However, shelf replenishment is a challenge that requires the precise and careful handling of densely piled objects. The irregular arrangement of objects on...
Spatial information regarding the arrangement of land cover objects plays an important role in distinguishing the land use types at land parcel or local neighborhood levels. This study investigates the use of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) in or...
This article describes an approach for mobile robots to identify scenes in configurations of objects spread across dense environments. This identification is enabled by intertwining the robotic object search and the scene recognition on already detec...
To address the problem of concave bank scour in a 120° bend river, this study designed and explored the bank protection effect of different arrangements of semi-cylinder sandbags. Based on the actual riverbed structure, a simplified geometric mod...
The article presents a solution to the problem of limited accuracy of dynamic measurements performed with GNSS receivers. The proposed measurement method is a response to the needs related to the assessment of the measurement uncertainty of the posit...
This paper describes methods and techniques of measuring similarity of musical pieces. This topic is crucial in plagiarism control and arrangement evaluation as these processes depend in particular on a previous experience and subjective aesthetical...
The Fin Ray-type soft gripper (FRSG) is a typical soft gripper structure and applies the deformation characteristics of the Fin Ray structure. This structure functions to stabilize the grasping of an object by passive deformation due to external forc...
In this paper, the robot arm Dobot Magician and the Raspberry Pi development platform were used to integrate image processing and robot-arm drawing. For this system, the Python language built into Raspberry Pi was used as the working platform, and th...
Societal development is increasingly undertaken as major public projects in different sectors. Project governance is important for strategically successful outcomes; thus, a broad societal perspective should be kept throughout the governance process....
In this work, an innovative arrangement of a vertical subsurface flow wastewater infiltration system (SWIS) was studied. The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the oxygen transfer rate (OTR) in two different pilot-scale arrangements of...
Studies of collaborative arrangements are usually based on socioeconomic interpretations, with little research exploring the socio-spatial perspective. The assumption is that space (as an epistemic category) can promote collaborative arrangements. Th...
The main objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between flexible working arrangements (FWA) and turnover intentions (TI), as well as the mediation effect of employee engagement (EE) in the relationship between flexible working...
With the continuous advancement of urbanization, rural areas are facing increasingly severe environmental pollution, excessive energy consumption, and high carbonization resulting from both daily living and production activities. This study, which is...
Object detection in remote sensing images has become a crucial component of computer vision. It has been employed in multiple domains, including military surveillance, maritime rescue, and military operations. However, the high density of small objec...
Vehicle detection in aerial images plays a significant role in many remote sensing applications such as city planning, road construction, and traffic control. However, detecting vehicles in aerial images remains challenging due to the existence of ti...
Pension funds have become major targets for the incorporation of climate change into their investment decisions. Recently, divestment from carbon intensive companies or industries has been the object of a wave of campaigns directed at these instituti...
In this paper, we formulate and solve a novel real-life large-scale automotive parts paint shop scheduling problem, which contains color arrangement restrictions, part arrangement restrictions, bracket restrictions, and multi-objectives. Based on the...
22 October 2022
The risk of mortality in old age is associated with marital status and living arrangements. There is still little knowledge about this in Latin America. Our objectives are to examine the association between marital status, living arrangements and mor...
When designing the battery of an electric vehicle, different parameters must be considered to obtain the safest arrangement of the battery/modules/cells from the mechanical and thermal points of view. In this study, the thermal runaway propagation me...
In order to obtain better vibration response data and improve the accuracy of results in large-span steel beam modal tests, this paper proposes an optimization strategy for the arrangement of measurement points on large-span steel beams. First, an op...
The European Union (EU) stands at a crossroads regarding its biofuel policies. For more than a decade, the EU sought to create a market for and govern sustainable biofuels for the transport sector, even as debates over sustainability escalated. It di...
A general pattern, which can include different types of permanent magnet (PM) arrangement in PM synchronous motors (PMSMs) is presented. By varying the geometric parameters of the general pattern, the template can automatically produce different type...
We analyze the loss of information and the loss of learning capability inside an arrangement of neural networks. Our method is based on the formulation of the Bogoliubov transformations in order to connect the information between different points of...
Although both the petiole and lamina of foliage leaves have been thoroughly studied, the transition zone between them has often been overlooked. We aimed to identify objectively measurable morphological and anatomical criteria for a generally valid d...
An accurate object pose is essential to assess its state and predict its movements. In recent years, scholars have often predicted object poses by matching an image with a virtual 3D model or by regressing the six-degree-of-freedom pose of the target...
The objects in remote sensing images have large-scale variations, arbitrary directions, and are usually densely arranged, and small objects are easily submerged by background noises. They all hinder accurate object detection. To address the above pro...
Significant progress has been achieved in the field of oriented object detection (OOD) in recent years. Compared to natural images, objects in remote sensing images exhibit characteristics of dense arrangement and arbitrary orientation while also con...
10 March 2019
With an ageing world population, preservation of older adults’ health and quality of life (QoL) is paramount. Due to lower levels of physical functionality, older adults are particularly susceptible to local environment influences, especially t...
Climate change entails many situations of tele-coupling. We analyze an example in the field of European climate and energy policy. The EU aims at an almost full decarbonisation of its economy by 2050. Achieving this objective asks for transforming th...
Backfillembedded heat exchanger (BEHE) are used for stope cooling during the mining process and for geothermal energy recovery during the long-term heat extraction stage. This study develops a three-dimensional BEHE model to optimize the pipe arrange...
The separation of solid particles from gas-solid process streams is an important unit operation in many chemical processes. Out of the many different types of separation equipment that are used for gas-solid separation, cyclone separators are widely...
Early studies on the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that the working from home (WFH) mandate and unusual caregiving arrangements have dramatically impacted the employment of women, especially those with young children. This study explores women’s pe...
Nowadays, optimizing wind farm configurations is one of the biggest concerns for energy communities. The ongoing investigations have so far helped increasing power generation and reducing corresponding costs. The primary objective of this study is to...
Quantum Fisher Information is considered in Quantum Information literature as the main resource to determine a bound in the parametric characterization problem of a quantum channel by means of probe states. The parameters characterizing a quantum cha...
The field of remote sensing information processing places significant research emphasis on object detection (OD) in high-spatial-resolution remote sensing images (HSRIs). The OD task in HSRIs poses additional challenges compared to conventional natur...
Object detection in remote sensing images is a critical task within the field of remote sensing image interpretation and analysis, serving as a fundamental foundation for military surveillance and traffic guidance. Recently, although many object dete...
Background and purpose: Proton therapy has been shown to provide dosimetric benefits in comparison with IMRT when treating prostate cancer with whole pelvis radiation; however, the optimal proton beam arrangement has yet to be established. The aim of...
The moiré effect is typically observed in regular periodic structures and sometimes in random (aperiodic) structures. However, currently, only regular graphical objects are used in measurements. We propose using graphical objects that are not...
Both vegetation coverage rates and arrangement patterns have important influences on erosion. Very little previous research focuses on the impacts of spatial vegetation distribution patterns on erosion. The slope-gully system was taken as the researc...
This paper studies the system unbalance caused by rooftop Photovoltaic Generation Systems (PVGSs) in distribution networks and proposes an improved method. The voltage and current unbalance studies for three extreme cases considering all rooftop PVGS...
Based on the consideration of the relative importance of sustainability-related objectives and the inherent nature of sustainable construction projects, this study proposes that the contractor can balance the levels of efforts and resources used to i...
Most objects are composed of semantically distinctive parts that are more or less geometrically distinctive as well. Points on the object relevant for a certain robot operation are usually determined by various physical properties of the object, such...
The arrangement of obstacles can significantly impact the deflagration behavior of combustible gases. In the actual pipeline accident site, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other gases often show non-uniform distribution after leakage owing to diffu...
Within an industrial plant, the handling of randomly arranged objects is becoming increasingly popular. The technology industry has introduced ever more powerful devices to the market, but they are often unable to meet the demands of the industry in...
Earthmoving is one of the main processes involved in heavy construction and mining projects. It requires a significant share of the project budget and can dictate its overall success. Earthmoving related activities have a stochastic nature that affec...
This paper presents a soft passive gripper consisting of six fluidic soft bending actuators arranged in a star-shaped manner. The actuators are oriented such that, upon pressurization, they bend against gravity. Gripping is realized by a commercial t...
The thermal management of high-heat-density devices is essential for reliable operation. In this work, a novel procedure is proposed and investigated for the efficient thermal management of such devices. The proposed procedure introduces different ar...
Trees’ ability to capture atmospheric Particular Matter (PM) is related to morphological traits (shape, size, and micro-morphology) of the leaves. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out whether cluster pattern of the leaves is also a param...
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